Back when the Nvidia proprietary driver version 555 was released, it made it so the DVI-I output no longer worked, for me and many others.
However, so far I’ve seen nobody offering any solution, and apparently nvidia doesn’t care despite the feedback from many people saying this happened.
Does anyone know of a solution?
I know for sure it’s the driver because I tried downgrading the nvidia packages, and it worked again. So unless a solution is found I basically have to stick to a single monitor unless I change graphic card to one with multiple HDMI outputs.
Well that’s not entirely true. You could always switch to an AMD graphics card. While Nvidia may be becoming more progressive with regards to making their drivers open source, I still think they’ve got a long ways to go before I’d ever consider buying Nvidia again.
We read endless daily bug reports related to Nvidia graphics cards on our forum, but everyone seems to ignore the real long term solution. Get rid of that garbage if you intend to run Linux. Just say no to Nvidia with Linux, and save yourself a whole lot of aggravation.
If you do get a different card best to get one with as many display ports as you can get over hdmi. You’ll have less issues overall since the HDMI org is super anti open source.
Switching to AMD is the long term plan, as I’m prepping to build a new PC (my MB and CPU are old enough that I’m better off re-building the entire thing from scratch).
Guess in the short term I’ll just stay on the drivers I know work.